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��Grace Blackburn
Miss Blackburn is the fifth daughter of the late Josiah Blackburn, for nearly forty years proprietor and editor of the Free Press London, Ontario. She was born in London and educated in the Public and High Schools of her native city, and later in Hellmuth College. She is literary and dramatic critic of the Free Press.
EPIC OF THE YSER
EAD with his face to the foe!
From Hastings to Yser
Our men have died so.
The lad is a hero
Great Canada s pride:
We sent him with glory,
For glory he died
So ring out the church-bells ! Float the flag high !
Then I heard at my elbow a fierce mother-cry.
On the desolate plain
Where the dark Yser flows
They ll bury him, maybe,
Our Child of the Snows :
The message we sent them
Through fire and through flood
He signed it and sealed it
To-day with his blood
United we stand ! Our Empire is One !
But this woman beside me ? . . The boy was her son !
IN A FRENCH HOSPITAL
AWN at last! Open the window, Sister, And let me see the sky . . . yes, open wide. How gray it is and blue. And look! that flush. . . As though the first beam of the glancing sun Fell on a garden ; as though across the world I caught the gladness of a rose in bloom.
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